In doing so, they found this orphan is within the same weight class as Saturn, strengthening the case that the galaxy teems ...

Astronomers have cataloged thousands of exoplanets, and a pattern keeps showing up: Around most stars, the most common ...

Scientists have discovered a rogue planet roaming the Milky Way after combining observations from Earth and a space telescope ...

Scientists measured mass and distance of free floating planet drifting through space without star for first time.

Astronomers have finally weighed a wandering “rogue” planet, uncovering a Saturn-mass world flung into the galaxy after a ...

Somewhere between the stars, far from any sun, a planet is moving quietly through space. There is no orbit to trace and no ...

The star system V1298 Tau reveals that many planets begin as large, low-density worlds that slowly shrink and shed their ...

One of the biggest recent surprises in astronomy is the discovery that most stars like the Sun harbor a planet between the ...

Alfredo has a PhD in Astrophysics and a Master's in Quantum Fields and Fundamental Forces from Imperial College London.View full profile Alfredo has a PhD in Astrophysics and a Master's in Quantum ...

NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope has discovered 16 extrasolar planet candidates orbiting a variety of distant stars in the central region of our Milky Way galaxy. The planet bonanza was uncovered during ...